SKIDMORE CLUBS, EVENT ORGANIZERS, OR OTHER ALUMNI AND PARENT GROUPS CURRENTLY ACTIVE OVERSEAS
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM MONTREAL, CANADA PARIS, FRANCE
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ISTANBUL, TURKEY ATHENS, GREECE
BEIJING, CHINA AMMAN, JORDAN TOKYO, JAPAN SHANGHAI, CHINA SHENZHEN, CHINA HONG KONG, CHINA BANGKOK, THAILAND
on website and document translation to help our expansion into Francophone Africa.
This year brought new projects and opportunities to go overseas. In January I traveled to Uganda to support efforts documenting our projects. We are also expanding our ef- forts this year into Chad and Burkina Faso. I’m also inter - ested in visiting our Southeast Asia offices, since our work there is so different from what we do in Africa. We’ve made huge progress over the last decade in the fight against malaria. Distributions of mosquito nets, in- creased knowledge of healthy behaviors, and improved access to health care mean that deaths from malaria have dropped almost by half—a testament to what political will and smart health interventions can achieve. But the disease still causes over 600,000 deaths a year, with as many as 207 million cases. New threats are emerging, too—for example, in Asia we’ve seen malaria that’s resistant to the most effec- tive drugs. Much of our work—screening migrant workers at borders, visiting households with malaria, and tracking cases via mobile phone technology—focuses on containing
its spread. If this resistance reaches Africa, it could easily set back the progress made so far. That’s why we can’t relax our efforts.
Economic development veteran Rebecca Maestri ’79, a senior analyst for the US Agency for International Development, has fostered business de- velopment in Eastern Europe, run risk-management training for bankers in the Asian financial crisis, and helped reconstruction efforts in Iraq. Now she’s designing programs to spur education, economic growth, forestry, biodiversity, gender equality, and water management.
My career at USAID was the result of dumb luck and im- peccable timing. I had worked in the US Senate and House, and a former Capitol Hill colleague who had moved to USAID invited me to help with innovative privatization programs. I didn’t even know what privatization was! But I was sought out for my perceived ability to get things done in an entrenched bureaucracy that was resistant to change.
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